Djembe Thumb Drum vs Chinese Instruments
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Djembe Thumb Drum
This app simulates a Djembe drum with customizable pitch and volume for bass, tone, and slap sounds. It allows users to play along in drum circles with friends.
- Realistic Djembe drum simulation
- Customizable bass, tone, and slap sounds
- Adjustable pitch and volume
- Play with friends in drum circles
- Fast and responsive interface
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A djembe at your fingertips. Play realistic bass, tone and slap sounds on your iPhone or iPad, with no ads to interrupt your rhythm. PLAY THE THREE DISTINCT SOUNDS Tap the drum to move between deep bass, open tones and crisp slaps. Explore your own rhythms, practice patterns or join a jam with friends. MAKE THE SOUND YOURS Adjust the pitch and volume of bass, tone and slap independently. Find the balance that suits the way you play. BRING YOUR RHYTHM INTO THE ROOM Connect your device to an external speaker for a bigger sound and fuller bass. Use a compatible wired connection and the adapter your device requires. JUST YOU AND THE DRUM Open Djembe and start playing. A focused, ad-free instrument for spontaneous rhythms, percussion practice and drum circles. Tap in. Find your rhythm.
Chinese Instruments
Explore the rich history and diverse sounds of traditional Chinese musical instruments. Discover detailed information, high-resolution images, and representative music for 24 unique instruments, categorized by type.
- 24 Chinese instruments detailed
- High-resolution instrument images
- Descriptive text for each instrument
- Representative music samples
- Integrated music player
- YouTube video links
- Categorized instrument list
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Chinese musical instruments are very interesting and have a very long history. This app try to present these Chinese instruments to non-Chinese player. There is a Chinese Version for the Chinese people. Chinese Music has been made since the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122BC to 256 BC). Today, the music continues a rich traditional heritage in one aspect, while emerging into a more contemporary form at the same time. Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. Dizi and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: animal skins, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal, and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion. This app includes 24 Chinese instruments, which fall into four categories: Wind instruments include dizi, xiao, sheng, suona, guan and xun etc. Plucked instruments include pipa, zheng, ruan, liuqin, sanxian and qin etc. Bowed instruments include erhu, gaohu, banhu, zhonghu, gehu and matouqin etc. Percussion instruments include dagu, bangu, bo, lou, bianzhong and yangqin etc. Each instrument has a high resolution picture, a description text file and a famous representative music. There are total 25 pieces of Chinese music, total time play exceed two hours. There is also a Music Player to play the music, if you want to listen to the music only. Beside music, there are two YouTube Video links to each instrument. This free version is the same with the paid version, except iAd advertisements added.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chinese Instruments at 100% against Djembe Thumb Drum's 24%. Chinese Instruments also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). Djembe Thumb Drum's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Chinese Instruments is free to download; Djembe Thumb Drum costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Djembe Thumb Drum holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 24% of Djembe Thumb Drum's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chinese Instruments's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Djembe Thumb Drum ships an update every 4 months, Chinese Instruments every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Djembe Thumb Drum | Chinese Instruments |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Thumb Wizards | Hon Fai Yiu |
Customer experience
Djembe Thumb Drum
Chinese Instruments
In-app purchases
Djembe Thumb Drum
No in-app purchases
Chinese Instruments
No in-app purchases
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